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steve  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Universal Paperclips

I could argue that it gets better....

edit: but that's coming from a guy who has made a billion paper clips and has too much money in my portfolio





wasoxygen  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It turned my cell phone into a portable heater for 24 hours, going through three charge cycles, but that first billion was the best.

Let me know what you think of the drifters' proposal. I rejected it, and now wonder what might have been.

Devac  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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wasoxygen  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, thanks. The cheatTrust() function seems a bit unprincipled, but looking at the source satisfied my curiosity about the alternative paths without having to make any more of those paperclips.

WanderingEng  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can directly set a whole variety of variables. I didn't cheat trust, I just changed it directly.

    var maxTrust = 50;
Devac  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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steve  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    There was an AI made of dust, whose poetry gained it man's trust...
steve  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I must not have noticed the drifter's proposal...

wasoxygen  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can't miss it. You just have to make more paperclips. Whatever number of paperclips you have made, you just have to make more paperclips.

WanderingEng  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You must be further than me. I haven't had a proposal from drifters yet. I'm somewhere over 6 octillion clips.

It's a little dull right now. I'm hoping it will have some new projects once I convert a significant portion of known space into paper clips.